Integration model for the Andalusian Regional Strategy for Social Cohesion and Inclusion (ERACIS) at the Community Social Services Center of the Central District of the Malaga City Council

Abstract

The Andalusian Regional Strategy for Social Cohesion and Inclusion has provided an excellent opportunity to modernize the functional structures and methodologies of Community Social Services, incorporating a new approach to social intervention at individual, group and community levels, and new forms of understand and practice the relationship with the environment.
In the case that is exposed in this work, ERACIS has made it possible to experiment with one of the main structural problems that the SSSSCC of Andalusia and in particular those of the city of Malaga carry: the predominance of the bureaucratic-administrative model and the need to move to a model centered on the person and their environment, in which the central element of the new paradigm is social intervention.
The provision of new human resources has made this opportunity for organizational and professional progress viable to build the new Community Social Services designed by Law 9/2016 on Social Services in Andalusia.
In this paper we show the case of the Community Social Services Center of the Central District of Malaga as an example of the impact of ERACIS on the transformation and modernization of Community Social Services: evolution of its functional structures focused on interdisciplinary Social Intervention teams in neighborhoods of Disadvantaged Areas, methodological integration of individual, group and community intervention, and coordination networks of social entities and public bodies.